jQuery.ready() no longer displays piecemeal?

jQuery.ready() no longer displays piecemeal?

Greetings,
We recently upgraded jQuery all the way from 1.3.2 to 1.8.3 and have noticed an irritating change in page loading behavior.  With the new 1.8.3 on a slow processor a new page load will blank the screen for 2 to 3 seconds before suddenly displaying the entire well formed page.  With the older 1.3.2 it would display piecemeal while it was building the screen.  For example, it would show a div folder containing widgets, then add a menu to the display, and finally add some tabs to the display.  Now with 1.8.3 the display is blank and then the folder widgets, menus, and tabs are all displayed simultaneously.  We prefer the previous 1.3.2 behavior and would like to know if there is way to regain that behavior?  Could this be a change in the implementation of the ready() function where our multiple calls to ready() are all being saved until the last one has completed?
Cheers, Bill  :-)